Michael Lonsdale
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French-British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is often known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, deputy police commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Abbot in The Name of the Rose (1986) and Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains o...
Known For
Filmography
The Life of Mirrors
2025
African Glory
2024
as Christopher Columbus
The Outsider
2023
as Narrator (Voice)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
as Self
Degas and I
2019
as Edgar Degas
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
2019
as Narrator
Bazin's Film
2017
as Narrator
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
2016
as Self
The First, the Last
2016
as Jean-Berchmans
Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
2016
as Daniel
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
2016
as Self
Sculpt
2016
The Visit
2015
as Self
Maestro
2014
as Cedric Rovère
N: The Madness Of Reason
2014
as Narrator
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
2014
as (voice)
Rosenn
2014
as (voice)
Le Renard jaune
2013
as Jean Virno
Gebo and the Shadow
2012
as Gebo
Titeuf
2011
as Le psy (voice)
Free Men
2011
as Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
The Cardboard Village
2011
as Old Priest
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
as Michael Lonsdale
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
2011
as Narrateur
Of Gods and Men
2010
as Luc
Agora
2009
as Theon
You'll Miss Me
2009
as Max
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
2009
as Le Grand Loustalot
Les amants cinéma
2008
as Self
The Man from London
2008
as Kocsmáros (voice)
Le Silence de l'épervier
2008
as Antoine Carsac
The Last Mistress
2007
as le vicomte Prony
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
2007
as Bartleby (voice)
Heartbeat Detector
2007
as Mathias Jüst
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Jeanne, à petits pas
2006
as Louis
Goya's Ghosts
2006
as Inquisitor General
Les Mains d'Andréa
2006
Munich
2005
as Papa
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
2005
as Professor Stangerson
Invisible
2005
as Le gardien
Gentille
2005
as Jean
Bye Bye Blackbird
2005
as Robert
The Separation
2005
as Paul Doumer
Five Times Two
2004
as Bernard
Under a False Name
2004
as David
Adieu
2004
as Serge
Le Furet
2003
as Don Salvadore
Kaena: The Prophecy
2003
as Opaz (voice)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
2003
as Stangerson
Le Mythe Cathare
2002
as Narrator
Those Facing Us
2001
as Mikaël
Actors
2000
as Man walking down the street
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000
as Self
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Inside 'Moonraker'
2000
as Self
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
as Self
A Monkey's Tale
1999
as Maître Flavius (Voice)
Ronin
1998
as Jean-Pierre
Let There Be Light!
1998
as Monseigneur Loublié
Don Juan
1998
as Don Luis
Mauvais Genre
1997
as Honoré de Balzac
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997
as (voice)
Noise of Love and War
1997
as The director
La Plante Humaine
1996
as Michel
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
1995
as Dollabella
Jefferson in Paris
1995
as Louis XVI
Vroum-vroum
1995
Dieu sait quoi
1994
as Narrator
Woyzeck
1993
as Le capitaine
The Remains of the Day
1993
as Dupont D'Ivry
L'ordre du jour
1993
as Stark
My Life Is Hell
1991
as Gabriel
Seul face au crime
1991
as Procuratore
Maigret
1991
as Guillaume Serre
Maigret
1991
as Sir Lampson
Film sur Georges Perec
1990
as Self
Out 1
1990
as Thomas
Souvenir
1989
as Xavier Lorion
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989
as Self
Earthen Man
1989
as (voice)
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
1988
as Cammerschulze
Der Madonna-Mann
1987
as Tanzmann
The Name of the Rose
1986
as The Abbot
L'air d'aimer
1986
as Raymond
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self
Rendez-vous manqués
1986
as Moralès
Emile Reynaud
1986
as Narrator
The Memory of the Eye E.J. Marey
1986
as Narrator
Le Tiroir secret
1986
as Philippe Jolivet
The Holcroft Covenant
1985
as Ernst Manfredi
The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985
as Antonie
Billy Ze Kick
1985
as Commissaire Bellanger
Le Génie du faux
1985
as Constantin Escher
Good King Dagobert
1984
as Saint Eloi
The Judge
1984
as Le docteur
The Colour of Words
1984
as Self
Erendira
1983
as Senator Onésimo Sanchez
Chronopolis
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Une jeunesse
1983
as Béjardy
The Boulugres
1983
as Le roi (voice)
La Rényon lontan
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Enigma
1982
as Bodley
Sweet Inquest on Violence
1982
as Ash, the financier
Trompe-l'oeil
1982
as Self (voice)
Mersonne ne m'aime
1982
as Commissioner Bancau
Le rose et le blanc
1982
as Léon
Smiley's People
1982
as Anton Grigoriev
The Bunker
1981
as Martin Bormann
The Games of Countess Dolingen
1981
as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
Alone
1981
as Ludovic
Un paquebot dans la tête
1981
as Roland Gougean-Roland
Jean-Sans-Terre
1980
as Jean Papeuil
Moonraker
1979
as Hugo Drax
The Passage
1979
as Renoudot
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979
The Left-Handed Woman
1978
as The Waiter
The Risk of Living
1978
as narrator
Ciné regards
1978
as Self
A Dirty Story
1977
as The voyeur
The Accuser
1977
as Abéraud
The Devil in the Box
1977
as Georges Aubert
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
1977
La nuit du beau marin peut-être?
1976
as Boris
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976
as The Vice Consul of Lahore
Mr. Klein
1976
as Pierre
Cygne II
1976
as Narrator (voice)
Scrambled Eggs
1976
as The President of the Republic
Bartleby
1976
as L'Huissier
Les Écrans déchirés
1976
as Michael
The Romantic Englishwoman
1975
as Swan
Aloïse
1975
as le médecin
The Track
1975
as David Sutter
India Song
1975
as Le Vice-Consul de Lahore
Special Section
1975
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
The Pink Telephone
1975
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
Galileo
1975
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)
Mad Enough to Kill
1975
as Stephane Mostri
Né
1975
as Self
A Whale That Had a Toothache
1975
as Le peintre
Serious as Pleasure
1975
as Inspecteur Fournier
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
as Hatter
Right to the city
1974
as Narrator
The Suspects
1974
as Judge Souftries
Stavisky...
1974
as Docteur Mézy
No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
as Raymond
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
1974
as The Judge
Caravan to Vaccarès
1974
as Duc de Croyter
Film sur Hans Bellmer
1974
as Narrator
La Grande Paulette
1974
as Paul
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
1974
as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
1974
as Smith
Malaventure
1974
as Georges Mortier
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
The Girl with the Cello
1973
as Philippe Lariel
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973
as Stéphane
Out 1: Spectre
1973
as Thomas
The Old Maid
1972
as Monod
There Once Was a Cop
1972
as Commissioner Lucas
Les Années Lumière
1972
as Narrator (voice)
Autumn
1972
as Julien, le réalisateur
Chut !
1972
as Sergel
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Law Breakers
1971
as Inspector Bertrand
Murmur of the Heart
1971
as Father Henri
Spring
1971
as L'homme qui fuit
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
Jaune, Le Soleil
1971
as Un juif
Out 1
1971
as Thomas
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
Un troisième
1970
as Le réalisateur
Le revolver et la rose
1970
as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
The Stud
1970
as Commissioner Donald Both
La Fenêtre
1970
as Bracquemont
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970
as Socrates
Hibernatus
1969
as Edouard Loriebat
Destroy, She Said
1969
as Stein
The Nail Clippers
1969
as Le mari
Winter
1969
as Julien & Marc
Stolen Kisses
1968
as Georges Tabard
The Bride Wore Black
1968
as Morane
The Man in the Buick
1968
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
The Big Wash
1968
as Delaroche
Concerto for an Exile
1968
as Un acteur au théâtre
Zoo Story
1968
as Peter
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
1967
as L'Avocat de la Défense
Judoka-Secret Agent
1967
as Thomas Perkins
Order of the Daisy
1967
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
Your Money or Your Life
1966
as Speaker at the Shy People's Club
Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
Comédie
1966
as L'homme (M)
The Buddies
1965
as Lamendin
Hail! Mafia
1965
as Hyman
The Ghostly Rental
1965
as Kernan
Le Petit Nicolas
1964
as The father
The Little Misses
1964
as L'elève
Jaloux comme un tigre
1964
as The grimacing motorist
Behold a Pale Horse
1964
as Reporter
Adorable Liar
1962
as Albert
Snobs!
1962
as Charles Dufaut
Crime Does Not Pay
1962
as Acteur
The Trial
1962
as Priest
The Immoral Moment
1962
as Mercier
Le bureau des mariages
1962
The Door Slams
1960
as Georges
Les Trois Sœurs
1960
as Andreï Prodarov
The Itchy Palm
1960
as Nobert
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
It Happened in Aden
1956
as Sinclair